Dr. Konstantinos Mitsakakis

Vita

Dr. Konstantinos Mitsakakis is a Physicist with an MSc on Nanoscience & Nanotechnology. He acquired his doctoral degree from the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Crete, Greece, while working in Biosensors Technology Lab at the Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas (IMBB-FORTH), Greece. His PhD topic was the development of a multi-analyte acoustic biosensor platform for cardiac marker detection.

Dr. Mitsakakis has a track record in the acquisition and management of national and EU research projects. In 2011 he joined IMTEK with an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship. He then coordinated the FP7-ICT project DiscoGnosis and the H2020 project DIAGORAS while he has been partner in the Horizon Europe project HOLICARE, the H2020 projects DMC-MALVEC and SuperPests, the Eurostars project Respiotic, and the national BMBF projects DiagnoSeps, SEPTICISION and COVIRES. He has been member of various JPIAMR-funded networks on diagnostics for fighting antimicrobial resistance since 2017. He is the initiator of the activities for diagnostics for developing countries at Hahn-Schickard and is in contact with several organisations for the translation of the research outcomes from laboratory to clinics/end-users.

He is author of >40 publications with several contributions in international conferences. His research interests are in the field of micro/nanotechnology for life sciences, biosensor technologies, microfluidics, lab-on-a-chip and microanalytical systems, as well as point-of-care diagnostics. Since 2016 he was heading the International Business Development Group of Hahn-Schickard and recently in 2024 he became Immunoassay Group Leader at the Bioanalysis Division of Hahn-Schickard.

Links to the Hahn-Schickard website

• LabDisk platform for automated analytics and diagnostics
• Point-of-need diagnostics of human and vector infections for patient management and epidemics control
• Assay development in immunoassays + protein analysis

Publications

• List of publications

Top five publications

• B. Johannsen, D. Baumgartner, M. Karpíšek, D. Stejskal, N. Boillat-Blanco, J. Knüsli, M. Panning, N. Paust, R. Zengerle, K. Mitsakakis. Patient stratification for antibiotic prescriptions based on the bound-free phase detection immunoassay of C-reactive protein in serum samples. Biosensors 13 (2023) 1009.
• T.T. Bachmann, K. Mitsakakis, J.P. Hays, A. van Belkum, A. Russom, G. Luedke, G.S. Simonsen, G. Abel, H. Peter, H. Goossens, J. Moran-Gilad, J. Vila, K. Becker, P. Moons, R. Sampath, R. Peeling, S. Luz, T. van Staa, V. Di Gregori, on behalf of the JPIAMR AMR-RDT Working Group. Expert Guidance on Target Product Profile Development for AMR Diagnostic Tests. BMJ Glob. Health, 8 (2023) e012319.
• B. Johannsen, D. Baumgartner, L. Karkossa, N. Paust, M. Karpíšek, N. Bostanci, R. Zengerle, K. Mitsakakis. ImmunoDisk - a fully automated bead-based immunoassay cartridge with all reagents pre-stored. Biosensors, 12 (2022) 413.
• S. Hin, B. Lopez-Jimena, M. Bakheit, V. Klein, S. Stack, C. Fall, A. Sall, K. Enan, M. Mustafa, V. Rusu, S. Goethel, N. Paust, R. Zengerle, L. Gillies, S. Frischmann, M. Weidmann, K. Mitsakakis. Fully automated point-of-care differential diagnosis of acute febrile illness, PLoS Negl. Trop. Dis., 15 (2021) e0009177.
• A. van Belkum, T.T. Bachmann, G. Ludke, J.G. Lisby, G. Kahlmeter, A. Mohess, K. Becker, J.P. Hays, N. Woodford, K. Mitsakakis, J. Moran-Gilad, J. Vila, H. Peter, J.H. Rex, W.M. Dunne, Developmental roadmap for antimicrobial susceptibility testing systems. Nat. Rev. Microbiol., 17 (2019) 51-62.

Fellowships

• Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship: 09.2011 – 08.2012
• Alexander S. Onassis Scholarship: 10.2003  – 12.2009

Contact

Address

Hahn-Schickard
Georges-Koehler-Allee 103, 2nd floor (Hahn-Schickard building)
79110 Freiburg
Germany